“I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.”
About This Quote
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, Speech at Chicago, Illinois (July 10, 1858), p. 502.
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